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THE American mutual fund industry will have its 80th birthday in a few months, but no one is much inclined to celebrate. And no wonder: the $7 trillion business, born with the formation of the Massachusetts Investment Trust in Boston in March 1924,...

Franklin Mutual Advisers sold its stake in the Sunbeam Corporation this year, ending an investment relationship that Michael Price, the former fund manager, forged more than a decade ago. The mutual fund group, based in Short Hills, N.J.,...

The spirit of Michael F. Price has risen, and it is hovering over the Thermo Electron Corporation. Barely six months after Mr. Price retired from active oversight of the Franklin Mutual Series funds, a group of six mutual funds with more than $21...

THE roster of value players at Franklin Mutual Advisers will remain the same after the chief executive officer, Michael F. Price, gives up his management duties next month, but they will be getting new positions. Specifically, the senior analysts who...

Ever since Michael F. Price sold the management company of the Mutual Series funds to the Franklin Templeton Group for a small fortune two years ago, the funds have labored under a cloud of uncertainty. Shareholders have nervously awaited the day Mr....

In the face of a storm of criticism from longtime fans, the owner, with typical bombast, vowed that he was ''totally supportive'' of his manager's game plan, saying the team was ''lucky to have him.'' In fact, the owner noted, the manager had just...

Franklin Mutual Advisors, the mutual fund run by Michael Price, has taken a 5.6 percent stake in the Pennzoil Company, making Franklin Mutual the company's second-largest shareholder. Franklin criticized Pennzoil for opposing the hostile takeover bid...